Re: Importing/parsing CSV files
Re: Importing/parsing CSV files
- Subject: Re: Importing/parsing CSV files
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:40:16 +0100
Mark J. Reed wrote:
On 9/7/06, T&B <email@hidden> wrote:
> Many popular parsers, like Perl's Text::CSV, fail on such values
(though Text::xSV handles them)
So is the latter reliable? Is it built into Mac OS X? Is there a
way to tie it into a script such as using do shell script?
It's a non-bundled Perl module.
Python's csv module is present on 10.3+; see <http://docs.python.org/
lib/module-csv.html> for documentation. Looks solid enough; a few
issues if you need to use it with non-ASCII csv data, but nothing
that can't be worked around if necessary.
Easiest way to call it from AS would be to wrap it as a scriptable
faceless background application - just a few lines of Python code
plus a short sdef. If you have to avoid external dependencies then
it'd be possible to mash together a solution that writes an AE list
to an AS-readable file.
has
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